[U-Boot] Policy for checkpatch usage?

Graeme Russ
2011-04-22T10:52:07Z

On 22/04/11 18:54, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Graeme Russ,
>
> In message <4DB0CF2F.2020701@gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>>> That said, if someone wants to maintain a U-Boot version, that'd be great.
>>
>> So, if someone maintains a U-Boot fork of checkpatch, keeps it up-to-date
>> with the Linux version, and pushes patches back up to Linux (to keep them
>> is sync as much as practicable possible) would we agree that that would be
>> the most favoured solution?
>>
>> I'm looking at checkpatch now (and its change history) - If I think I can
>> take it on, I will send out a call for U-Boot specific checkpatch features
>
> I think it wouldbe even better if we could push our changes back into
> the "mainline" version of checkpatch, so that the U-Boot specific
> behaviour can beenabled by a command line option (checkpatch --uboot ?).
>
> Forking is not so preferrable here, I think.
>

I agree, but if the Linux guys won't accept patches for U-Boot specific
semantics, what choice do we have?

Regards,

Graeme